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Oct
10
2007
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1:27pm Who ya gonna call? Doolin Coast Busters!

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

Sep
10
2007
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5:53pm Steve Fossett Rescue: Is this his plane?

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A TGU reader Robert Poli has commented on the Steve Fossett search post to say he’s found something in Google Earth. Look at coordinates: N38* 50′ 04″ W118*52′45.37″ small, white, right angle image on mountainside. A quick check of the coo[...] Read More »

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6:10am Steve Fossett Rescue: Call In The Technology Pt II

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Call in the crowd! Artificial intelligence is now being used in the form of Amazon Mechanical Turk to track Steve’s position. The idea is to complete simple tasks that people do better than computers by splitting up the images into tiny squares and getting 1000s [...] Read More »

Sep
5
2007
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11:55pm Steve Fossett Rescue: Call In The Technology

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - With a 60,000-square-mile search area (5hr radius from Flying Ranch M) to look for the missing world record breaker Steve Fossett they’ve decided it’s time to call in the technology. TGU Blogger Darran spotted today on TechCrunch.com that Richard Branson ha[...] Read More »

Jul
25
2007

3:22pm Recovery: Body on Cliffs of Moher

Two Irish marine rescues this afternoon: RTE Report: Gardaí and rescue services are attempting to recover the body of a man found on rocks at the sea below the Cliffs of Moher. The Doolin Coastal Cliff rescue team along with the Shannon based rescue helicopter are working in the area to recover t[...] Read More »

Jul
15
2007

10:17pm Reardon Update, Mooathon & SAR Rescue

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’m back in Dublin this weekend, flying back to London at 4.30am. Here’s some tidbits for Monday morning. Michael Reardon has still not been found. Navy are diving in the bay tomorrow to check the seabed if conditions allow. A girl was pulled from the [...] Read More »

Jun
20
2007

10:18pm RNLI Auction: Crew For A Day

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The RNLI emailed me today to give notice of their eBay auctions. Apart from winning station tours of stations around the country, you can bid & win for 2 places to become ‘Crew For A Day’ at their award-winning Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on 24 A[...] Read More »

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